118. The answer is right there

This is Drum Tower Street.

The place where Liu Wenwei disappeared, and the location of that door.

Originally clueless, the tangled mess of threads was pulled apart, and unexpectedly, it turned out all the knots were loose; with just a slight tug, the threads were sorted out.

Everything connected together, transforming into the truth.

Lu Li stood up again, pushed the door, and left the coffee shop, crossing the pedestrian street to stop in front of the Tang He railing.

The outline of a white Xiali car appeared not far across the river. The coffee shop, he, the car, nearly in a straight line.

Mist was rising at their feet, similarly venting water along this straight line in the sewer below.

The rain had slowed down in the past two days, mostly just drizzling or overcast weather, the flow in the underground channel wasn't as turbulent as the previous days, but still carried a depth around the lower leg, washing into the river in frothy runs.